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Katz, Critic

How silly do we at the Book Bench feel today, surrounded by books we’re actually planning on reading before we write about them? Turns out that, all this time, we could have been divining their worth in a single glance, like Farley Katz, the mustachioed don of the Cartoon Lounge. Until I read his brilliant take on Darryl Strawberry’s memoir, “Straw,” I thought that cartoonists should stick to cartooning. I’m glad to see that Katz is tearing down the walls between our disciplines. I’ve long felt that the Book Bench was lacking in a specific area: dog drawings. Well, we can’t actually draw dogs ourselves, but we can download one twice as cute in half the time.